As we discussed in previous article that vCenter Server 6.5 appliance deployment is 2 staged process for each instance. So we will have 2 stages while deploying PSC appliance and 2 stages while deploying vCenter appliance.

Also, for installing vCenter Server 6.x with external PSC, we will have to follow the installation order. We must install PSC appliance first and then install vCenter Server 6.x appliance.

To keep post short and simple, in this post we will see the walkthrough of installing PSC appliance node only. In another post, we will see deploying and joining vCenter server to external PSC appliance as continuation of this post.

Once ISO is downloaded, you can mount it from your desktop which can be windows, MAC OS or Linux operating system as this ISO includes installer support for all these operating systems as you can see in image below.

Navigate to directory as per your desktop OS.

Double click installer.exe under win32 directory as in my case I am using windows desktop for deployment.

We now have 4 options to choose from on installer launch screen as described.

Install - for deployment of vCenter server appliance or PSC.

Upgrade - To upgrade from previous version of vCenter appliance

Migrate - To Migrate from windows based vCenter server to vCenter appliance 6.5

Restore - To restore the backups taken with native backup feature introduced in vCenter Server 6.5

We will click Install as this will be greenfield deployment.

Clicking Install link will launch the stage one. Click next to begin the deployment process.